On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:30:14AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote: > Ignorant newbies may at some point become the Michael Elkins of the > future.
They may. And that would be an entirely good thing, for them and for all of us. But that doesn't preclude the fact that they're ignorant newbies *today*. With precious few exceptions, all of us were. > If you can't figure out a better method of dealing with spam than to > filter out HTML messages, perhaps there is another "ignorant newbie" you > neglected to consider. Actually, I have far better methods. And I not only use them, but I've written them up so that others can too, if they wish. But the statement stands: statistically speaking, blocking-on-HTML-only is not a bad anti-spam technique in most environments. It's certainly far better than many of the others that are commonly used or discussed. > I appologize ahead of time for this rant, but you see, I know what a DOS > window is and I guess I'm getting ornery in my old age. No apology necessary, before or after. ---rsk
